Great. What a topic for a first post.

They say writers are made, not born. Others say it’s the other way around. Well, ALL of us can write but few of us learn to love it like we love eating. But thanks to the birth of blogging, it seems writing has become a part of our system.

What struck me is that though some people consider or are considering writing as the source of paying the bills, once you ask them to write, they’ll back off and go to oblivion. It was irritating but then I really do can empathize as I encounter those moments where I feel banging my head for the first sentence.

Sometimes I hate writing because:

1. The ideas come at an unexpected and inconvenient time.

I bet there was a time you couldn’t sleep because your lightbulb moment came at the wee hours of the morning and yet you can’t get up to write because you want to sleep first but then you get up and write what’s in your head until you noticed that the sun’s up and you have to go to work.

2. You can’t write anything when you should have jotted down something.

This happens a lot when you’re pressured to write at a certain time. Even though you have ideas, the actual writing won’t take place only until 30 minutes before your deadline.

3. You end up writing more than you should have in the first place.

And then it gets rejected and you have to start all over again. You were just supposed to be submitting 200 words but you end up with a thousand and then to be slapped in the face with a 85% revision.

Inspite of these, I still write and look forward to it. Pressure is writing’s greatest foe. When one is given a time constraint to jot down it feels like the world is tumbling upside down. Our muses can only do much. Sometimes I wonder if there are really these inspirations or it’s all in the head. Nevertheless, I do love writing, even though I despise it sometimes.